Huge old-school video game collection sells for $1.2m

A collector of old school video games has sold a collection of thousands of games for $1.2 million.

The French video game collector named Andre had amassed a collection that included all games for most of Nintendo’s consoles, all of Sega’s and NEC’s games, which included some 7,000 individual games.

The Los Angeles Times tracked down Andre and asked him why he wanted to collect the entire sets of these videos:

“I perfected some full sets by getting every title of them factory sealed, just for the challenge of it,” he said in an email. “Some titles are extremely hard to come by brand new when they’re 25 years old. Now that the mission is complete, maybe it’s time to move on.”

The collection includes the rare Nintendo Virtual Boy and the short-lived Sega Dreamcast, complete with its about 550 games. But among the rarest items in the collection is a game called Go-Net for the Sega Mega Drive (known as the Genesisin the U.S.), which Andre said there are only two of on the planet. He also included the game Kunio-Kun Dodgeball Gold for the Super Famicom (which is the Japanese version of the Super Nintendo). Andre said only eight copies of Kunio-Kun Dodgeball Gold were ever produced.